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About BestOfIndya
BestOfIndya is a social bookmarking site was launched on March 31st 2007 to facilitate information sharing among users. BestOfIndia allows user to submit an article or link to article from the web that will be reviewed by other users and will be promoted, based on popularity. (More users approve the article more it stands out)
With an ever-growing support of contributors and users of the site, BestOfIndya seeks to improve, update and add new features to enhance the usability of the site and make site more and more relevant among millions of sites on the web. Objective of the site is to be feature rich while remaining family friendly and provide useful information to users of all age groups.
This is just the beginning and BestOfIndya is working on adding more and more useful features on the site in days ahead.
Success of such Social Bookmarking site mainly depends on contributing users. To thank contributors BestOfIndya has recently introduced Share, Promote and Profit theme that rewards user for participating in BestOfIndya. You can find the details of this Revenue Sharing Program on BestOfIndya.
How BestOfIndya Works
When the story is first submitted to BestOfIndya, it will immediately appear in Upcoming News where other users can find and if they like Vote for it. As soon as story receives enough votes it will appear in Published News In the Published News tab user can sort news by Newly Popular, Top Today, and Top in Last 2 days, 7days, and 30 days and in one year. In the Upcoming News tab user can sort news by Newest, Oldest, Most Popular and Least Popular.
Share, Promote and Profit
Like many Revenue Sharing Websites BestOfIndya adopts Share, Promote and Profit theme that rewards user for participating in BestOfIndya
Share
Users submit/share any interesting news article from the web or share their own story from their blog. To make submission process easy BestOfIndya has provided users with Bookmarklet, BestOfIndya Widget that make submission process very simple.
Promote
BestOfIndya encourages Blog/Site owners to promote their stories on BestOfIndya by using BestOfIndya Widget on their blog or site which not only keep tracks of Votes received by the Story but also provides a link to the story on BestOfIndya from users blog/site.
Profit
BestOfIndya has added Revenue Sharing Program which is already is being used in various sites on the internet. Whenever story user added to BestOfIndya is viewed by a visitor, there is a 50% chance ads will be displayed with users Google AdSense publisher ID. If Ads are clicked, the revenue goes into users Google AdSense Account. Google has approved such systems as long as only one publisher Id is used on any given page.
All the content on BestOfIndya is created and managed by registered 'users'.
FAQ:
How do I post a news article?
First you have to register, which is free and takes only a few seconds. Once you are logged in, click on the Submit an Article tab at the top of the page and follow the instructions. You can also use "Bookmarklet" that makes it very simple to submit article. Look for the instructions on the Profile Page.
Why my Account was terminated and all submissions were deleted?
Abusing of voting to promote story to frontpage by creating fake user ids, excessive submition of stories trying to promote site without participating in voting or any other activities on BestOfIndya and posting inappropriate content may result in termination of account.
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